Word: ornament
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Beginning roughly in the 1860s, two generations of well-to-do children were reared in the museums, theaters and concert halls of the new Ringstrasse. They acquired aesthetic culture not, as their fathers did, as an ornament to life or as a badge of status, but as the air they breathed ... The two children of the Wertheimsteins, one of Vienna's wealthiest intellectual society families, were privately tutored to be artists, and the 'artistic natures' of these melancholy neurotics were the subject of general appreciation. The great psychiatrist Theodor Meynert encouraged his son to a career...